Last week at E3 was amazing for Battlefield 3, but there was one question that stood out from the rest of the pack: When do we get to see Battlefield 3 on consoles? Well, you may want to pay attention to this next bit...

This Thursday night (June 16), Battlefield 3 will be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, but more importantly, we’ll be playing the game on the PlayStation 3. That’s right! We’ll be giving you the world premiere of Battlefield 3 on consoles this Thursday night when DICE’s Johan Dohl takes the stage and gives Jimmy the first crack at Battlefield 3 for the PlayStation 3. Be sure to tune in, or set your DVR to record, for the world premiere console gameplay of Battlefield 3 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this Thursday on NBC at 12:35/11:35C!

A point of clarification for all of our Battlefield fans. We will unlock the contents of the Physical Warfare Pack to all Battlefield 3 players later this year – for free. Read on for more details on this and Back to Karkand.

So maybe this is stating the obvious, but all of us at DICE are here because of our passion for games and the passion to bring you the games we too love to play. I always knew our pre-order offers for Battlefield 3 would be open to misunderstandings. This post is an attempt by me to answer any questions you have.

I would like to start by clarifying that the Physical Warfare Pack is a time-based exclusive. If you do not pre-order Battlefield 3 at a retailer carrying the Physical Warfare Pack, don’t worry. We will unlock the contents of the Physical Warfare Pack for free to all Battlefield 3 players later this year.

The Physical Warfare Pack will be available as a pre-order bonus all over the globe. Right now, the UK is the only country where it has been announced, but stay tuned to get constant updates on where you can pick this up in your country. And remember, if you do not pre-order, you will still get access to this content at a later date, free of charge. If you do pre-order, you will get access to it from day one.

For Battlefield: Bad Company 2, many in the Battlefield community were very vocal about wanting additional, new maps to expand the multiplayer experience. With Battlefield 3, we want to make sure we can increase your library of maps quicker than we did for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. We also want to give you something special for pre-ordering, as pre-ordering is basically your way of saying you believe in DICE and Battlefield 3. When we announced that everybody who pre-orders Battlefield 3 would get an entire future expansion pack at no extra charge, I knew we had created a very generous pre-order offer.

Back to Karkand is a massive, themed expansion pack available a period of time after the base game, developed by a separate team here at DICE -- the same team that brought you Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. If you played Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, you have a pretty good idea about the scope and ambition of our expansion packs. This is so much more than just four remixed maps.

If you pre-order Battlefield 3, you will be able to play Back to Karkand at no extra charge as soon as it is released, but it is not day one DLC and it is not on the base game disc. We think it’s a sweet deal, and it’s available to everyone everywhere. If you do not pre-order Battlefield 3, you can still buy Back to Karkand separately and play it as soon as it is released, the very same date as anyone who pre-ordered. In other words, there is no segmentation of the community when we launch the base game.

There are more pre-order offers for Battlefield 3 out there, and in order to try and avoid any confusion we will return within the next couple of weeks to detail all of them as well.

As always, post any questions you have here, in our forums, on Facebook, or Twitter. We are listening and value your opinion.

When I pre-order Battlefield 3, it is not because I believe in DICE. They will forever have my hatred for lying to my face and then ignoring me. When I pre-order it will be because I like Battlefield despite them.

When I pre-order Battlefield 3, it is not because I believe in DICE. They will forever have my hatred for lying to my face and then ignoring me. When I pre-order it will be because I like Battlefield despite them.

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What did Dice do wrong?

I still haven't preordered BF3 yet, but i will eventually because love both Dice and their games personally.

I still haven't preordered BF3 yet, but i will eventually because love both Dice and their games personally.

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I need to stop joking about that. I have nothing against Dice or EA. Like any company I follow due to using a product from them, there have been decisions I thought were kinda "Why would you do that?"

The issue I joke about was a contest their UK PR guy had going a while back. If you were the first ten people to stab him in Bad Company 2 and prove it on their forums, he was suppose to send you a real dog tag. I was the 3rd and they never sent me anything. Never got contacted and literally any contact with them to inquire about it is meet with harshly being ignored.

I let it go a while back, but its fun to randomly bring it up like I hold a grudge cause its funny to me.

So nothing against EA or DICE. I might have to tighten that guy up if I catch him in a bar if I go to the UK though.....on principle.

what's to not want about it? its the same game. You can't take 5 seconds to plop a disk into a tray and play it? personally since BF3 is going to be such a bad ass game id rather have a physical copy, instead of it being tied to a digital distributer.

why are you guys complaining still about this anti steam stuff from EA? Just buy a physical copy. I dont see the problem.

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If the physical copy requires you to install Origins on your machine, I don't see how that solves the problem. The issue isn't that BF3 is going to be released on Origins, but rather that is appears it is only going to be released via Origins.

what's to not want about it? its the same game. You can't take 5 seconds to plop a disk into a tray and play it? personally since BF3 is going to be such a bad ass game id rather have a physical copy, instead of it being tied to a digital distributer.

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My 2.5 year old son devours any cd he can get his hands on. I would much rather have all of my games digital for fear of them being destroyed. He's a good kid, but he likes to help me with computers and cars, so when he sees cd's laying around he tried to help out (and it usually doesn't help), or he gets distracted by shinies and runs it through all the dirt on the floor.

And since I have over 150 games through Steam, I would just rather have it their for simplicity.

I understand Steam if comfy and all but generally monopoly is never good on the long run. Imagine it may end up like with windows. Firsts its all nice and full of features and after a few years you can't play your games on any diffrent OS.

I personally like steam for its features and hate them for pricing politics. Games are mostly more expensive than their hard copy's. I don't know if its still true with 1$=1Euro at steam but it was extremely annoying.

I'm 100% sure Origin will allow you to DL the game if you have a legit hard copy. EA wants to compete with Steam not prison you with BF3 with it. Even if it wont you can always get an ISO image off net and use it with your legit key. I did that with most games cause I hated the Polish language versions.

I personally like steam for its features and hate them for pricing politics. Games are mostly more expensive than their hard copy's. I don't know if its still true with 1$=1Euro at steam but it was extremely annoying.

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Maybe in Europe thats true, but almost any new release is 10% off for games, and older titles being massively discounted, it's almost always cheaper for me to use Steam.

Maybe in Europe thats true, but almost any new release is 10% off for games, and older titles being massively discounted, it's almost always cheaper for me to use Steam.

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Yup. Steam is a g-d sent for me. I have two small children and a cat that all seem to have a GPS guiding them to my expensive positions. Once they arrive it apparently tells them to play with the positions (lay on them if its the cat) and later destroy them.